Rachel A. Brune

Author: RachelABrune

  • Things happened…

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    I thought I would be back up to speed by now but … well … things happened. Suffice it to say, I have been going full speed ahead in a variety of directions, but am slowly pulling in the lines and getting back on course. A few things are going on… 1. This Friday shall…

  • I need your opinion…

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    Well, I am back from my Army vacation and getting ready to suit up and get on with a number of things, including #WriteFridays exercises and a bunch of other projects. One item that I am moving forward on is … (Drum roll please…) ONLINE LITERARY MAGAZINE PROJECT THING!! (Help me name it, please.) I’ve…

  • #WriteFridays the 19th

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    I’m sneaking on to post a quick writing exercise, which I realize will not only be the 19th #WriteFridays exercise, but will also be posted on the 19th. Small things like that make me happy. Yes, I’m a dork. Anyway, this will be the last one before I take a few weeks’ hiatus to go…

  • #WriteFridays the 18th!

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    This week I started to formally hang out my shingle as a writing coach, and one of the ladies from my critique group took me up on it. We met up, and after discussing the issue that she specifically had questions about, she mentioned that sometimes it was hard to start writing without worrying about…

  • Mail call!

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    I woke up this morning and opened up Goodreads, just to find out how many people had eventually ended up signing up for my Soft Target giveaway. My goal had been to reach about 250 people–even if they were only signing up for free for a free book, at least that would be 250 people…

  • Work in Progress … Exercise in POV

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    Last week’s #WriteFriday exercise was a prompt that had to do with perspective and point of view. For my own stab at it, I decided to get into the head of my antagonist, Dr. Gratusczak, from the Rick Keller novels. I say novels, but really it’s one novel, Cold Run, and a whole bunch of…

  • #WriteFridays Exercise 17

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    This week I’ve been thinking a lot about empathy and perspective, and it put me in mind of an exercise we used to do in my acting class in college. For this exercise, we would have to put ourselves in the mind of someone we obviously were not — a five-year-old, someone of another gender,…

  • Alternate creativities…

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    I spend a lot of my time writing, thinking about writing, not writing, wishing I were writing, blogging about writing, feeling guilty about not writing, or otherwise with writing somewhere in my conscious or subconscious. Sometimes, I forget that there are other creative works that I have percolating around in my mind. This weekend, I…

  • #WriteFridays Exercise 16

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    For this week’s writing exercise, I decided to take some inspiration from the giveaway I’m currently running, and try something that explores elements of the plot, tossing characters about at the whims of chance. I find that, when I’m writing, I’m usually kind of a control freak about what’s going on … at least until…

  • Giveaway! Enter to win a signed copy of Soft Target…

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    Maybe you’ve seen some of the books on my list, but weren’t sure about giving an indie author a shot. Fair enough. So, I’m making it easier for you to try out my stuff! If you would like to enter to win a signed copy of Soft Target, check out the widget below. (And if…